westsidestoryIOWA CITY WEST HIGH SCHOOL 2901 MELROSE AVE. IOWA CITY, IA 52246 WSSPAPER.COM FEBRARY 2016

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Pages 4-5: FramingPages 6-9: Aperture, Shutter SpeedPages 10-11: PortraiturePages 12-13: LinesPages 14-15: LightPages 16-17: PerspectivePages 18-21: Free form

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Top: Kyra Stoll 18’ is framed between a fork in a tree in the courtyard of Iowa City West High.

Right: In the West Library Kyra Stoll 18’ is framed between leaning books and shelves as she is taking a photo

FRAMING

Top Left: In the Prairie behind West High a prairie restoration sign is in focus and the wild prairie is in the background

Bottom Left: A wild plant behind West High in the prairie is caught in focus to see the intricate details of the plant.

Top Right: A leaf with raindrops behind my house is focused in on to show the de-tails of it

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Top Left: Molly Howes 18’ is captured twirling in West High as her flies and she has a smile on her face Top Right: Molly Howes 18’ is captured in bal-lerina form as she shows off her dancing “skills” in the halls of West High

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SHUTTER SPEED

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Top Left: Molly Howes’ 18 is looking out of the window in the newspaper room and the bright light outside highlights her face

Bottom Left: Tayten Wheeler is showing off his huge smile after just hopping out of the shower.

Top Right: Set on a tripod, in the sum-mer I captured the colored sky and also

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Top: In the stairwell of West High near the en-trance many lines could be seen and were sil-houetted against the pale sky

Right: As my dad and I walked out of walmart buying notebooks, I noticed the lines that were made from the handicap signs and they made a focus point.

LINES

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Left: The bright light of the outside hallway of West High compared to the dark room Kyra Stoll 18’ and I were in Silhouetted her and cre-ated dark and light contrast

Top: Using a iPhone camera flashlight, I cap-tured Kyra Stoll 18’ wearing a clown head and the light made the picture extremely creepy

LIGHT

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Top: My family is captured from bird’s eye view enjoying family dinner and conversating about random things. It was chili night

Right: From a worm’s eye view I captured the detail of the huge tree in the courtyard of West High and the elongated branches

PERSPECTIVE

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Top Left: Brooklyn Wheeler is in deep focus on the video game on the phone. The darkness encloses her, and the main light comes from the thing that distracts her.

Top Right: Brooklyn sits in the dark surfing the web, doing what most kids these days do every night.

Bottom Right: Claire Murray 18’ is in the dark on her phone and the light illuminates her face

Bottom: Brooklyn and Reece Wheeler sit and and watch a TV show before bed. They are in a trance as the main source of light captivates them

FREE FORM

FREE FORM

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